근대화 이론과 미국의 지식인들

Modernization Theory and American Intellectuals - for a new perspective

The purpose of this study is to consider the modernization theory in a wider context of twentieth century American intellectual tradition. We can ask whether the theory was a new paradigm or a simple policy or it was an outgrowth(variant) of the preceding intellectual tradition. Here, the author s position is the latter. He tries to retrace the intellectual, social, political trajectory leading to the formation of the theory. First, the new research directions for the theory are introduced. Second, the author deals with the political, social, intellectual environment, especially that which surrounds the academic world. Third, the author, with Nils Gilman s help, introduces three main institutions where the theory was first publicly formulated and related with the real policy-that is, Harvard s dept. of social relations, CCP in SSRC and CIS in MIT. Through all of this, the author stresses the importance of a new perspective on the theory.